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The View Is Beautiful From The Vertex

Vertex is a stunning theme built for service providers that want to showcase their equally stunning products. The climb down from the Vertex is long, but as you descend you are met with beautifully animated content that is built for scrolling. The homepages gives you a chance to engage your visitors and tell your story through galleries, sliders, testimonials and team member bios. At both the vertex and the summit, you are met with a clear call to action that is built for conversions. Vertex sweats the small stuff, and each element has been designed with meticulous detail. The theme is responsive, so it will will display beautifully on all devices. The theme also comes with some great color and font custmization options, as well as custom header images, making it easy for anyone to make Vertex their own.
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Responsive Design

The use of mobile devices is on the rise, and it is important for your website to be ready for those mobile visitors. Vertex comes fully responsive, meaning that the design will adapt to whatever screen size is being used to browse. You website will look great and will be a breeze to read on mobile phones and desktop computers alike.

And let’s not forget about tablets! Vertex will also look great on your iPad or Android tablet in both portrait and landscape mode.

Beautiful Typography and Font Options

Vertex puts an emphasis on typography, and the theme comes with some great font options as well. You can quickly select and preview dozens of fonts from within the Theme Customizer. Just click the gear customization icon when browsing the demo to get a preview of the great options that are available.

Your comments are greatly appreciated! Be sure to drop us a line and let us know what you think of the new theme

By Nick Roach

I am the founder and lead designer at Elegant Themes. When I'm not hard at work on new themes, I enjoy writing an article or two on our blog!

134 Comments

what i cant seem to get is how to add multiple “sections” such as a slider, and portfolio, and all that jazz to my front or home page like it is on the demo, can you do this last favor and help me get it like that.

Thanks George. You can also use our Portfolio or Image Gallery page templates if they are more to your liking. The portfolio would also look better with more projects – maybe I will add some more to the demo to fill out the page a bit more.

Thanks for the note Justin. I think it’s most important to have the navigation slide in once you are down the page a bit. We chose to have it slide in after the header, but this could be adjusted fairly easily.

HI I was wondering the same thing… isn’t there a quick code to insert, perhaps in the header, to deactivate the sticky navigation.
It seems to work fairly bad on mobile devices, making the top go white after you’ve scrolled down, and go up again…

Looks great!
One point … It would be handy to get twin menu options as well as ecommerce functionality. I know a shop is not the purpose of the theme but you have some great themes why not enable a greater level of diversity….
Top job guys! Keep up the wonderful work.

Actually a bit disappointed in the last couple themes ET released.. Hope for some new options and designs soon that will blow my mind (like they used to do). Would love a new e-commerce theme that’s just clean and very customizable..

I’m sorry to hear that you are not happy with our last two themes, considering that they are my two favorite themes in our collection What about the last two themes to you find disappointing other than the fact that they are not e-commerce themes? (We just released two eCommerce themes, Foxy and StyleShop, and we can’t only release one type of theme).

I have to agree with Caroline. This is a professional and lovely design — yet seems really geared only toward tablets and smartphones.

The overall impact, for me, is that of a theme reduced to a responsive presentation on a smartphone. I keep wanting to “zoom out” so I can see the entire page.

On my a widescreen monitor, it’s difficult to get any sense of what the site is offering overall (scrolling… SURPRISE! scrolling… SURPRISE!), which is kind of “fun,” I guess, and par for the course on mobile.

Yet on a desktop or laptop, I find the overall effect somewhat disconcerting.

Perhaps there is another dynamic at work that I’m not seeing; please, feel free to explain.

Thanks for the reply James, though I am not sure that I agree that the theme is geared for mobile. The fact that things “load in” as you scroll may seem like it’s a big difference that when viewing a normal site, when in reality things are always a “surprise” as they are always hidden below the view-port of your browser until you scroll down. The “lazy loading” effects are quick, and shouldn’t actually degrade the viewing experience as everything will already be visible by the time you stop moving your mouse and start to read. Instead they act to grab your attention as your explore the long format page.

@James, the effect is blowing on lap or desk-top b’cos the lazy loading effects does the trick. The idea should be clear to you….to keep your visitor longer on your site cum motivate them to contact you or associate with your website. Did you see the parallax effect as well? That’s vogue in web design currently.

I am more and more amazed by your creativity guys.
Honestly, I can’t help but admire this theme in reverence and awe.
That’s how wonderful it is! I thought you would never beat a storyteller “Fable”, but you proved once again that “Vertex” of your creativity is in this stunning theme. Fable and Vertex are my two the most favourite themes now. They outclass any other theme in the collection by a long stroll.
I don’t know how it happens, but whenever I see a theme update e-mail from Elegant Themes in my inbox I get truly excited and happy.
Thank you for the moments that you create!
Looking forward to see some more creative masterpieces in the future!

Thanks Timur, I am glad that you love this theme as much as I do! My two favorite themes in our collection are Fable and Vertex, and I think the design direction that I have taken with these two releases is a big step forward.

Right ON NICK! Ya def Took it to the Next Level man!$ (luv the sticky header, mobile friendly/responsiveness, ajax/lazy loading, fixed background images!/bit of parallax.. curious, no way to ‘fix on mobile’, some css we could add?) Wooo Hoooo!!

Web Adonis! Vertex is the most insightful theme ever seen in your collection. Love the “team” effects,and even the “fixed” navigation bar that follows you as you climb down! Every effects in the front page is mind-blowing.

However, I observed that the project/product showcase in the home page takes our visitor away from the beautiful climb down instead of option to view (in the same window-fancy box effect) or navigate to the page link as you always code your portfolio or gallery template.

Aside that, the theme caught me pants down! More glorious days for elegant theme. I love you folks. With this I’m considering to be a life elite member.Cheers!

Absolutely stunning theme. I like how you have made it possible to use this theme with all possible devices.

I generally don’t write feedback but man… this was really good. Few things I did observe though:
1. Featured slider does not work on iPad 2 or android (2.3.7) phone. – I don’t see the > arrow to view the next article. Couldn’t check with other versions. Works perfectly on desktops
2. Need to be able to change the text color of the menu (currently white). When scrolling down, if the background is white, the text color makes it impossible to view menu
3. Additional Menu items get wrapped around and hence when scrolling down, they come over on new line and out of the green header. Again, these being white, these don’t work well on a white background of the page. Noticed when there was 7th menu there.
4. Need to be able to reduce the font size for the logo text and menu items (Just slightly).

My site is still under development and has lorem ipsum on it. But it may give you some idea.

I’m seriously thinking about buying a subscription to be able to use this theme, but quick questions: Is it possible to have multiple parallax background images on the homepage? More generally, how configurable is the order/number of sections on the homepage?

This theme is awesome. I’ve got an art website that i’m planning on launching pretty soon and I’m pretty sure that i’m going to be using this theme. The testimonial section with the pop up faces is sweet! Great work

I was planning to stick with a free theme until I saw this one. Stunning and simple!
I’ve got two questions before I buy: Is it hard to add advertising to the footer and sidebar areas? and, can I add a “related posts” plugin to the end of posts?
The only reason I’m not keeping the theme I have is to help people find my content quickly and easily.
Thanks!

Hi Nick! Your theme looks stunning and I personally love it. Although there are some inflexibilities I would like to point out.

Is there a way to add video on the homepage. Doesn’t need to be on the header, but probably somewhere in the project section or anywhere so that the video could show up on the homepage? I think if we have more customization of the homepage it would be great.

Another thing, when I add a feature image to a project, this image appears very large on top when I click on the project, which is not appealing and convenient since my viewers would have to scroll along the imagey all the way down to view the content. This is nice in some case but not always. Is there a way to eliminate this image in the project (without interfering with the thumbnail of the project on the homepage) or even adjust the size?

Also I wish it could have options for the fonts and colors of the Header Text.

It’s a nice theme that I’m using for my site. But at Project section on Homepage, when i click on thumbnail it’ll open a post. May i change it to gallery which open a bigger image when i click on thumbnail ? Please help me. Thanks a lot

If you are having trouble with the header…for example, I wanted to display a specific portion of an image. It looks like the theme takes the image you upload and crops it to a square from the middle of the image. Look at the thumbnail it creates. That’s what’s going to display. I created a 1000×1000 image with the specific portion where I wanted it, and that worked. You can’t go by the file size of the demo image because it’s massive, and actually only uses a small portion from the middle of the image.

I have a question. I can’t find where to disable the individual projects pages using the “featured image” as the header. It looks super gross. I just want the home page header background. The demo has it working the way I would assume was default. Maybe I’m doing the projects page incorrectly?

Hi Nick, honestly love this theme, it is perfect for what I needed. Two questions:

1.- the need of images or photos on mobile view is really big, majority of my visitors are using an iphone and it is a shame they can’t see either a proper background photo or any image in the slider any plans to improve on this?

2.- team members is quite flexible and I love it, I use it to demo my products and its characteristics. However if I want to change the order in which they appear, I have a big problem, needing to delete and create again as the sort order seems to be by “creation date”. Is there any easier way I can manage this?

Your comments will be highly appreciated. Thanks heaps in advance and congratulations in such a beautiful theme.

Hi there, this them suits one of my customers very well. Very nice! One question though – which is the default font, you can choose different fonts for header and body but you dont get the name for the original font?